Love Bites

Twenty-four surprises in your eyes,
Skies on your lips,
Mountains on your fingertips,
Lightning up your spine!
Let’s laugh our way around the world,
Before the bogeyman can catch us.
The whole earth is revolving
In the palm of your smile.
With every kiss you give a twist
To life, a stab at joy.

And so we lie on our stomachs on the carpet
And face one another over the chessboard:
Your move!
I watch your fingers hover
With tactical finesse.
J’adoube.

Galaxies collide:
Smashing together, spirals
Explode into massive plumes
Of stars, gas and dust,
Writhe and twist
In elliptical agonies,
And their centres coalesce
Into one core.